Prime number : 17 stories from Illinois short fiction / edited by Ann Lowry Weir ; with an introduction by George Core.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weir, Ann Lowry, 1946-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Illinois short fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 326 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1988]

Summary:

The volumes in the Illinois Short Fiction series (four annually since 1975) have showcased outstanding work by some of the nation's best writers, many of whom have had stories included in the annual O. Henry, Best American Short Story, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Prime Number serves as a compendium of the series, and as an appetizer for those who wish to sample the hundreds of stories in the fifty-two collections by individual writers.

Contents:

Preface / Ann Lowry Weir

Introduction / George Core

Indisposed / Russell Banks

Bodies of the rich / John J. Clayton

The Actes and monuments / John William Corrington

Pastorale / Susan Engberg

At the fence / Merrill Joan Gerber

One more river / Lester Goldberg

Billie loses her job / Robert Henson

Home fires / David Long

The Christmas wife / Helen Norris

Early morning, lonely ride / Nancy Huddleston Packer

The next time I meet Buddy Rich / Pamela Painter

The red dress / Abraham Rothberg

A new life / Janet Beeler Shaw

Ladies who knit for a living / Anthony E. Stockanes

Surviving adverse seasons / Barry Targan

Birds in air / Jean Thompson

The two sides of things / Gordon Weaver.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0252060326

9780252060328

025201572X

9780252015724

OCLC:

17805853